Travel Blogs from Surabaya

So back in the 30's, Surabaya was an overnight stop, but of late I have found it elusive, it has been the hardest to research over the years, there seem to be no records or any particular knowledge of the history here... But I had a cunning plan.

... okay on straight, smooth main roads but took a turn for the worse as we started the ascent up the bottom of the mountain. It's the same situation as when you are driving up to a ski resort, bendy, bumpy, rocky roads that make you feel seriously car sick. I was thankful when we pulled to a stop. The guide informed us that we would now wait for the jeep which was coming to take us to the highest viewing point in the town to see the sunset over mount Bromo. As we stepped out the ...

... They stayed a while stuffing their faces with bananas, then they suddenly climbed really high up the tree. We heard more noise and then the dominant male appeared, he was huge. No wonder they escaped up the tree. It was amazing actually seeing these animals, we were only about five meters away. We were very fortunate that at all three stations we saw Orangutans. There were a lot of baby orangutans, some of these were very entertaining. ...

There isn't a great deal to see in Surabaya from a tourist's perspective, though we did visit a monument of a crocodile and shark entangled in each other outside a zoo, which is an important monument here according to Felix. Perhaps it is something to do with the fact Surabaya is a port city. We visited the Zheng He mosque, the only Chinese mosque on Java I believe, where a man told me I couldn't enter the "mosquito" as ...

... and have a bit of a rest. We walked over the road to a shopping centre where Dan ate some of the greasiest spring rolls I have ever seen, but they were cheap, and then we all retired, agreeing to meet at eight at a Chinese Restaurant in the mall.

Dan started feeling ill around six, and got progressively worse as the hours ticked by, I went to meet Mandy and Tracy but they didn’t show up, instead, in keeping with their new personas as ...